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While addressing the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov backed up India for becoming the permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. “India and Brazil are key international actors, and should be counted for permanent membership in the council,” said Lavrov. India’s external affairs minister S Jaishankar is currently on a 10-day visit to US as part of the UNGA meetings.

India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on the sidelines of day four of United Nations General Assembly meeting, on September 23. This has come after Jaishankar’s recent visit to Saudi on September 10-12. Notably, India and Saudi Arabia are maintaining a strong cordial relationship, especially in politics, security, energy, trade, investment, food, health’s bf defence fields.… read-more

Addressing at the 77th session of UNGA in New York, Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan said that India and Pakistan “have not established peace between them yet”. This has come as he raided the border issue of India’s Kashmir. He then considered the situation “unfortunate”, and hoped that peace will be established soon. Notably, Erdogan met PM Modi on the sideline of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit on September 16.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted multilingualism, an India-sponsored resolution, for the first time mentioning Hindi language. With this, UN will continue to disseminate messages and communications in official as well as non-official languages, which includes Hindi language. Furthermore, the resolution also mentions Bangla and Urdu for the first time. Ambassador TS Tirumurti welcomed the gesture and expressed gratitude… read-more

During his address at 76th UNGA, PM Modi requested the United Nations to bring the necessary reforms to strengthen its ''global order, global law and global values'' on September 24. Referring to India's demand for a permanent seat in the Security Council PM said, ''If the right work isn't done at right time, then the time taken destroys the success of that work." Notably, the UN was started in 1945.